Sips & Swallows
From Around The Amateur Wine Competition
It was a perfect spring day as we got into the car and set our sights for The Equinox in Manchester, V...
Multiple Charges Follow Nighttime Head-On Crash
By Andrew Gorosko
Police have arrested a local man on multiple charges following a late-night two-car head-on ac...
Harley-Davidson offered a special edition motorcycle in the 1990s featuring cowhide insets on the saddle-bags and seats. The model quickly earned the moniker â&...
Plant Sale Also In The Works—
Jazzing Up The Garden
With Color And Contrast
The Town and Country Garden Club of Newtown will host its next meeting ...
Ben Folds, Julia Nunes, To Perform At WestConn
DANBURY — Popular singer, songwriter and pianist Ben Folds will perform with guest Julia Nunes at 8 p...
Complaints To Better Business Bureau Trigger Attorney General Investigation
WALLINGFORD — Better Business Bureau investigations have prompted the Co...
Thanking The Volunteers
Newtown Savings Bank employees and officers put down their checkbooks and closed business ledgers Wednesday and stepped outside to celeb...
Occupation: I’m retired now, but I’m very involved in the world. I raised six children as a full-time mom, and I dabble in a lot of ...
Earth Friendly Experience Brought Out Newtown Vendors
BETHEL — In honor of Earth Month, the recent Mind Body Soul Experience and Go Green Earth Ga...
DUI Arrest
Police report they received a call about 12:54 pm on April 26 reporting that a motorist was driving erratically on Queen Street, so they went to...
I am sorry but $88.8 million dollars to educate 4030 kids is way out of line! That's over $22k per kid, used to be $8k per kid, the kids aren't getting any smarter, the administration eats all the cost. Time to cut the budget by 20% and also cut the $225k salary of the superintendent and $193k of the superintendent assistant ! You can get a lot of teachers for $400k wasted for 2 overpaid positions. Common sense should tell you that spending $2.5 million per every week for population less than 30k people is just way too high! Also voting should be done by mail, enough with these nonsensical referendums where barely 16% of voters show up. 51% voters approval should be MANDATED!
Who have you asked that didn't know where to cut? Its easy. Ideally, you would start with section 100 of the budget but the union prevents that. So I say you turn to page 18, put it on your dart board, and start reducing the head count. It's all you can do when the union controls the budget.
The people have spoken, time to sharpen your pencils. If we look at the town budget for guidance the BOE should cut the budget from 4.4% to 2.75% I find the voting results very interesting ... We have approximately 4,030 students in our town, with a published 12:1 ratio which means we have 335 teachers. I would love to know the actual number if someone knows. If we account for their spouses that gets us very close to the number of people who voted yes for the budget and wished it would be higher (729).